2. Essential Questions What do all living things need to stay alive? What characteristics of animals help us to sort them into groups? How do animal structures help them to survive? How do animals interact with their surroundings?

3. Space/Air Food Water Shelter

4. The Animal Needs Song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1GTcvovh-A

5. Let’s Play the “Needy Animals” Game!

7. ANIMALS BACKBONENO BACKBONE

8. What does a backbone look like?

9. How does a backbone work? A backbone is like a big puzzle that is made of pieces called “vertebrae”. Each is linked together like a chain.

15. Look, Feel, Listen How are these things different? How are these things the same?

16. How do animals survive in the OCEAN?

18. How do animals survive in FRESHWATER?

20. How do animals survive in the FOREST?

21. Now, you see me. And now you don’t!

22. How do animals survive at the POLES?

24. How do animals survive in the DESERT?

26. Underground How do animals survive in a WETLAND?

28. Let’s Review What do all living things need to stay alive? What characteristics of animals help us to sort them into groups? How do animal structures help them to survive? How do animals interact with their surroundings?